"Survivor" ended a strong season Sunday night with a worthy winner in John Cochran and plenty of drama and false teeth, so why am I so unhappy Monday morning?

The reunion show.

Historically, that extra hour is one of the best parts of the season. We get to see all the players together for the first time since episode one, and at the end we are rewarded with a peek at the coming season.

This year, CBS gave us neither. Only 10 of the players took the stage for the reunion. Brenda Lowe, now pregnant, stayed home but appeared live from Miami. The nine players who left the game before the jury were ignored, part of the sad but growing trend of the show to concentrate on a few of the most popular players.

The non-jurors were in the audience, or at least some of them were. Notably absent was Brandon Hantz, who quit the game in a rage. There were rumblings that Brandon had been uninvited – more than rumblings, actually, Brandon's uncle Russell said as much on Twitter. So perhaps leaving all the non-jurors off was the show's way of papering over the controversy. Whatever the reason, it was a bad choice. There was time to plug Rob Mariano's new book, but not to even acknowledge half of the players from this season?

We were also disappointed that we were given nothing about next fall's 27th season except for the title: "Blood vs. Water."

Various reports and rumors have the show returning to the Philippines and the "blood" in the theme referring to family members of former players being involved. Marianos and Hantzes? Probably.

"Dancing with the Stars" (ABC, tonight and Monday) – The deadline for this column comes before Monday's performance episode, so we didn't get a chance to comment on Kellie Pickler dancing the "flame-enco," but we're pretty sure Kellie and Derek Hough will make it through tonight's elimination. Ingo Rademacher and Kym Johnson seem like the obvious choice to go home, but every time we have made that claim so far this season it has ensured that the couple stayed.

"The Voice" (NBC, tonight and Monday) – My record of predictions for just about every show has been dismal this season, so why not "The Voice," too? My early favorite, Garrett Gardner, needed a save from Shakira to stay on the show. So who do we like now? Let's ruin Danielle Bradbery's chances by endorsing her.

"Hell's Kitchen" (Fox, tonight) – Barret stays? Of course. Decisions on this show have become increasingly Donald Trump-like, and performance rarely plays any significant role. Barret is far more entertaining than Amanda.

"Celebrity Apprentice" (NBC, Sunday) – We need to summon our strength to survive just one more episode of Trump's extravaganza of randomness. Perhaps forever. The Donald insists that "Celebrity Apprentice" is not canceled, although NBC doesn't have it on next year's schedule. Of course, that has been the case in the past. The show is cheap and easy to make, so NBC can have it in hand when one of its series inevitably crashes. As for next week's finale of Trace Adkins vs. Penn Jillette: We'll leave that choice to Mr. Trump.

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